NAME
JSONY - Relaxed JSON with a little bit of YAML
VERSION
This document describes JSONY version 0.1.17.
SYNOPSIS
use JSONY;
my $data = JSONY->new->load($jsony_string);
DESCRIPTION
JSONY is a data language that is simlar to JSON, just more chill. All
valid JSON is also valid JSONY (and represents the same thing when
loaded), but JSONY lets you omit a lot of the syntax that makes JSON a
pain to write.
API
JSONY has one instance method: load. You pass it a JSONY string and it
returns the loaded Perl data object.
JSONY SYNTAX
Here is some examples of JSONY followed by equivalent JSON:
Words don't need quotes. A list of things is an array:
foo bar baz
[ "foo", "bar", "baz" ]
Strings with spaces can use single or double quotes:
'foo bar' # <= This is (a comment indicating) a string
# More commenting
"baz boom "
[ "foo bar ", "baz boom " ]
Top level hashes can be ':' separated pairs or use curlies. Sub hashes
require curlies.
foo: { bar baz }
num: -1.2e3
{ "foo": { "bar": "baz" }, "num": -1.2e3 }
Top level arrays can use '- ' at the start of lines. Those arrays go
the end of line. Lines can be continued using a trailing comma. Sub
arrays require square brackets.
- array of 4 scalars
- array with [ sub
array { of
things }]
- array of 7 things on,
two lines
[
[ "array", "of", 4, "scalars" ],
[ "array", "with", [ "sub", "array", { "of": "things" } ] ],
[ "array", "of", 7, "things", "on", "two", "lines" ]
]
NOTE: You may want to look at the tests (especially t/load.t) to see
the full abilities of JSONY.
STATUS
JSONY has been in use for well over a year. It seems to working well.
Development people are working on this in #jsony and #pegex in
irc.freenode.net. Please drop by.
JSONY.pm is a very simple Pegex-based parser. You can see the quite
tiny JSONY grammar here:
http://github.com/ingydotnet/jsony-pgx/blob/master/jsony.pgx
http://jsony.org coming soon.
AUTHORS
* Ingy döt Net (ingy)
* Matt S. Trout (mst)
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2012-2017. Ingy döt Net.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html